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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Massachusetts pharmacy board head fired after meningitis outbreak | Synopsis

Massachusetts pharmacy board head fired after meningitis outbreak

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Authorities fired the director of the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy after he failed to investigate a complaint against New England Compounding Center, the company at the center of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak, state officials said on Wednesday. NECC is linked to a meningitis outbreak that has infected more than 400 people and caused 31 deaths. Massachusetts officials said they uncovered a complaint against NECC by Colorado pharmacy regulators just months before the outbreak. The complaint, which said NECC was distributing drugs without patient-specific prescriptions, was forwarded on July 26 to James Coffey, director of the Massachusetts pharmacy board. Coffey failed to order an investigation or take any other action on the Colorado complaint, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's interim commissioner, Dr. Lauren Smith, said in a statement.

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Dr. Lauren Smith

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-0.093026"It is incomprehensible that Mr. Coffey and Ms. Manning did not act on the Colorado complaint given NECC's past, and their responsibility to investigate complaints," Smith said ...
-0.499305"I find the actions of NECC reprehensible," Smith said ...
-0.143511"I find the actions of NECC reprehensible," Smith said in the statement. "We have the right to expect that all companies producing medication for use in delivering health care to comply with laws designed to protect patient safety. But I also expect the staff charged with oversight to perform their duties to the highest standards. That failed to happen here."
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Susan Manning

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Organization: Colorado State Board of Pharmacy

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Organization: Massachusetts Department of Public Health

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Congress, Car Salespeople Rated Least Honest | Redux

Congress, Car Salespeople Rated Least Honest

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Excerpt:

What do Congressional representatives, car salespeople and advertising practitioners have in common? They’re among the professions with the lowest perceived honesty rating, polling shows. A newly released poll from the Gallup organization asked respondents to rate the honesty and ethical standards of people in various professions across 22 fields- ranging from medical practitioners to salespeople to elected representatives. While nurses, pharmacists and doctors topped the list as the most honest, members of Congress were at the bottom, with only 10 percent of respondents giving them “very high” or “high” marks. The only profession with a lower positive honesty rate? Car salespeople – only 8 percent of people rated their honesty standards are “very high” or high. ” When it comes to ranking professions reversely- in order of the lowest perceived honesty and ethical standards, members of Congress took the top distinction.

Congress, Car Salespeople Rated Least Honest

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Caregiver Who Served Poisonous Mushrooms Is Banned | Redux

Caregiver Who Served Poisonous Mushrooms Is Banned

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Mushroom production by wallygrom
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Excerpt:

A California woman who served poisonous mushrooms to residents of an elder-care home has been barred for life from working in such facilities after four people died, state officials said Thursday. An investigation by the California Department of Social Services found that Lilia Tirdea, the home's caretaker, failed to apply state standards by serving "foraged mushrooms" to five residents. Tirdea "constitutes a threat to the health and safety of the clients," the report said. Four people died, and two fell ill, including Tirdea, after eating mushroom gravy in early November, the report said. Investigators previously referred to the dish as soup. The report cleared the owner of Gold Age Villa, Raisa Oselsky, who will be allowed to keep her license. Investigators found that Oselsky had properly trained Tirdea and told her to serve only store-bought food to residents at the home near Sacramento.

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Lilia Tirdea

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Relevance: 0.83147

Raisa Oselsky

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Relevance: 0.427131

Michael Weston

Overall Sentiment: 0.0870597

Relevance: 0.36416

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0"This is a very tragic accident, however, after investigating the department felt this action was necessary to protect the health and safety of individuals who live in licensed care facilities," said Michael Weston, ...
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Barbara Lopes

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Teresa Olesniewicz

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  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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StateOrCounty: California

Overall Sentiment: -0.257764

Relevance: 0.312776

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